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Customs and Border Patrol Issues New Rule for Searching Devices at Borders

By Linn Foster Freedman on January 11, 2018 Posted in Cybersecurity

We previously reported that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has been stopping U.S. citizens at the borders of the United States and demanding passwords for access to mobile devices [view related post]. According to CBP, 19,051 mobile devices were searched at the border in 2016, which increased to 30,200 in 2017. All of these … Continue Reading

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